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Read Daniel Rosenberg’s text on the history of the pencil. Photograph: Douglas Engelbart’s brick pencil. Courtesy of the Doug Engelbart Institute.

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Three drawings from the Drawing Matter Collection have been reproduced for Rome in the World at Fondazione MAXXI in Rome, curated by Ricky Burdett.

New in the Collection

Edouard Cabay, P2B_TJ01, Trajectories: Variations on a Gesture, Barcelona, 2022. Digital print, edition 2 of 3, 841 × 1189 mm. DMC 3975.1.

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Zaha Hadid
The Viennese School

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Shatwell Farm

Find an archive of the building projects and interventions at Shatwell Farm, Somerset, Drawing Matter’s home from 2014 – 2024, here.

The Shatwell Valley. Photos: Sue Barr.
The Drawing Matter Archive at Shatwell Farm and grain silos.